Privacy Statement

Internode is committed to providing excellent service and protecting your personal information is important to us. This statement explains how we collect, use, share and hold your personal information.

If you don’t provide all or part of the personal information we require, we may not be able to provide you with the relevant services.

How we may collect your personal information

Internode usually collects personal information about you directly. For example, we collect personal information when you provide information to us by phone, email or social media, or when you enter your personal details on our websites.

provide information to the manager of the Integrated Public Number Database (IPND);

provide you with information about our services, products and special offers (and marketing those products to you unless you have requested us not to do so).

How we may share your personal information

We may need to share your personal information to organisations outside Internode, for example, with:

suppliers so we can supply the service to you;

technicians we engage to resolve faults concerning your service;

a credit reporting body or credit provider if you fail to make payments due under our CRA;

a fraud-checking agency to carry out checks;

debt collection agencies and similar parties that assist with debt-recovery;

specialist contractors for the purposes of research and development;

other communication companies, for specific marketing campaigns;

our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers;

other telecommunications and information service providers, for example, for billing purposes and telephone directories (unless you request a silent number);

your authorised representative or contact person in the manner you have agreed to;

your legal advisers, if requested by you to do so;

a duly authorised government, regulatory authority or other organisation such as the TIO, when we are required or specifically permitted by law to do so (for example, to the operator of the IPND, which supplies information for telephone directories) or to resolve customer complaints or disputes;

a specified recipient if a court order compels us to do so, and

law enforcement agencies concerning the enforcement of criminal and other laws if we are compelled, or required to do so.

There are some circumstances where Internode may provide your personal information to an organisation located outside of Australia. These organisations work with us to provide professional services in software development, systems and technical support, data storage, marketing and product development. The countries these organisations are based in include: Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, China, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. We ensure that these companies take the security and confidentiality of your personal information as seriously as we do.

How we hold your personal information

We keep customer information on controlled systems, which are secure against unauthorised access. Proof of identity is always required before personal information is disclosed to any person, including the specific customer. We take particular care with credit card details, which are not stored unencrypted in Internode systems.

Our Websites, Cookies & Online Advertising

We may also collect data about visits to our websites for marketing and statistical purposes to improve the way we interact with you. We may use cookies (small files that are stored in your web browser) or other similar technology for these purposes. Some examples of cookies that we use or collect are:

Web Analytics Cookies - to understand anonymous and aggregated website behaviour such as how many visitors are using our websites, length of visit, where visitors are navigating, and what pages have been visited.

Online Advertising Cookies - to ensure our online advertising is more relevant to you and keep you from repeatedly seeing the same advertising from us.

The data collected from cookies (or similar technology) our Websites use is anonymous and is not matched to any identified individual. You can usually remove or block cookies and opt-out of interest based tracking by using the settings in your web browser application or mobile device, however it may affect your ability to use the website.

Our Websites use Google Analytics Advertising Features (including Remarking and Impression Reporting). These features make use of cookies and similar technology. In addition to making the advertisements you see interest based, these features also allow our advertisements to be displayed to you when you are visiting other websites on the Google Display Network. Our use of these features does not result in Google or any other third party obtaining any of your personal information.

How to access & correct your personal information

We maintain and update the personal information we hold as it becomes necessary, for example when our customers inform us that their personal information has changed. A customer can request to opt-out of certain communications and make changes to their personal information directly through My Internode, or by contacting us at support@internode.com.au or by calling 13 66 33.

Please contact us if you wish to access or correct personal information that we hold about you.